Rail-tie.



. J. GRIFFIN.

RAIL TIE. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 16, 1909.

Patented Sept. 7",1909.

NITED STATES 1 .4m OFFICE.

Joan GRIFFIN, or MELROSE, IOWA.

RAIL-TIE. 933,553, Specification of fietters Patent. Patented Sept, 1909,

Application filed February 16, 1909. Serial N0.,f178,151.

To all whom it may concern: 1 of the tie and in order to form a firm base for Be it known that 1, Joint GRIFMN, citil the rails, the tie is provided with channeled,

zen of the United States, residing at Melin which the base of the rails are seated when '55 rose, in the county. of Monroe and State of applied to use. 5 Iowa, have invented certain new and useful The rails are held in position on the ties. Improvements in Rail-Ties; and I do hereby means of blocks 7, the free ends of said by declare the followin to be a full, clear, blocks being formed to fit over the base of and exact description 0 the invention, such the rail and engage the web thereof, there 60 as will enable others skilled in the art to being a block on each side of the rail, the which it appertains to make and use the stems 8 of which extend between the ribs .1 same. 3 and 4:, respectively, and are held in posi- My invention relates to new and useful tion against the rail means of wedges f),

improvements in rail ties and means for atwhich wedges are entered through slots 10 65 taching the rails thereto and my object is to in the ribs and by making the outer faces provide a metallic tie adapted to support the of the wedges tapered, inward pressure will rails of a railway track. be directed against the ends of the stems as A further object is to provide means for the wedges are driven lengthwise through locking the rails to the tie, whereby the same the slots. 70

will be held against vertical or lateral move- The wedges 9 are held against casual rement. moval from their respective slots by means A further object is to provide means for of binding bolts 11, which bolts are entere securing the locking mechanism in its adthrough threaded openings in the wedges justed position and a still further object is and engage a tongue 12 of the blocks 7, 75 to provide means for locking the ends of the said tongues extending below the wedges rails together. and said blocks are further held in fixed po- It is further an object of the invention to sition by means of bolts 13, which exten rovide anchoring means for the tie. through slots 14k in the stems 8 and enter Other objects and advantages will be herethreaded openings in the tie. 80 inafter referred to and more particularly 7 hen the blocks 7 are employed for sepointed out in the claims. curing the ends of the rails together, the

Figure -l is a top plan view of one of the inner and outer blocks are attached together ties showing the track rails attached thereas shown in Fig. 3 at their upper edges to, and, Fig. 2 is a sectional view through the and are so arranged as to receive the abut- 85 tie as seen on line 22, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a ting ends of the rails, the heads of the rails detailed side view of a rail holding block being cut away at their meeting ends and more particularly for use between rails at provided with projections 15, which enter I their joint. recesses 16 formed between the meeting faces Referring to the drawings in which simi- 0f the blocks, while the webs of the rails and 90 lar reference numerals designate correbase portions thereof extend below the meetsponding parts throughout the several views, l ing ends of the blocks and rest against each 1 indicates the tie, which is preferably other the two blocks being so arranged as formed of metal and having a rounded to occupy the space occasioned by the cutupper surface, the body of the tie having 1 ting away of the heads of the rails. As the 95 grooves 2 formed longitudinally thereof, in 1 blocks in this instance are secured together which the soil upon which the tie rests, is at their upper edges, the wedge action caused adapted to pack, thereby holding the tie by the wedges 9 will bring the lower poragainst slipping. The upper surface of the tions of the blocks toward each other and tie is provided with paralleling ribs 3 and l, 3 thereby securely clamp the abutting ends of 100 the ribs 3 extending between rails 5, while l the rails. By attaching the rails together the ribs 4 are on the end portions of the ties in this manner, the joints are so broken as extending beyond the rails, thereby permitto practically form a continuous rail and it ting the rails to rest directly on the surface will likewise be seen that the usual form of usted positions,

spike employed for securing the rail, is dispensed with, the blocks securely holding the rails in position on the tie.

What I claim is: 1. The Combination grooves in its lower being adaptedfto} receive correspondingex tensions upon the ends of opposed rails, and With a tie having member 111 position. face and parallel ribs 3. A device of the character described,

below the aforesaid recesses, said recesses I means for the retention of said retaining extending longitudinally of the tie, said ribs comprising a base having parallel upstandhaving slots therethrough; of rails adapted to extend across the tie, blocks adapted to engage the rails, said blocks having stems adapted to pass between the parallel ribs on said tie, said stems having tongues,

wedges adapted to extend through the slots in the ribs and engage the ends of the stems and means to lock the wedges in their adsaid wedges resting upon sald tongues, v and fastenings insertible through said wedges and engaging said tongues.

.2, A device of the character described, comprising a rail retaining member formed of upstanding blocks and having lateral portions provided with apertures, said blocks having in their upstanding portions recesses, also an additional recess intermediate of and I .ing ribs, a rail retaining member having an upstanding portion provided with lateral recesses also an additional recess below and intermediate of the aforesaid recesses adapted to receive extensions upon the ends of opposed rails, and wedges insertible through slots in said ribs and resting upon said rail JOHN GRIFFIN Witnesses RICHARD HANNAM, JOHN H. OBRYAN.

retaining member, and means for the attach 

